Did CBC make Cherry apologize?

Don Cherry finally decided to do the right thing and apologize to former NHL enforcers Chris Nilan, Stu Grimson and Jim Thomson on his Coach’s Corner segment on Oct. 15 after previously calling them “pukes, hypocrites and turncoats,” and accusing them of blaming off-ice problems with drugs and alcohol on fighting careers. While Thomson has made that link, Nilan and Grimson never did.

While listening to Cherry’s apology, I was wondering why he hadn’t done it on the previous week’s show, when he said he had no regrets for his original comments on the season-opening telecast, apart from using the word “pukes”, which he said was “rude.”

You have to wonder if CBC didn’t demand that Cherry apologize after Nilan, Grimson and Thomson threatened legal action.

Good on Cherry for apologizing, but why didn’t he do it the week before?

“I gotta admit I was wrong on a lot of things,” Cherry said on the Oct. 15 Coach’s Corner. “Three enforcers — tough guys, my type of guys — I threw them under the bus, and I’m sorry about it. I really am.”

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